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Since January 2025 detention has grown rapidly and shifted geographically: , , , and have been the primary anchors of the expanded system, with Texas—particularly facilities—housing the largest daily ...
Reporting from multiple advocacy groups and news outlets documents directives and targets tied to higher arrest volumes for ICE since 2025, including per-field-office and national daily goals reported...
Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...
Since 2024 the largest enforcement deployments reported in U.S. cities have centered on the Twin Cities (–) and , with major activity also documented in and wide state-level surges in , and ; reportin...
Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...
State-by-state ICE arrest rates in 2025 varied sharply: Texas emerges as the epicenter with the highest per‑capita arrest rates in multiple analyses, while some West Coast areas—most notably Northern ...
Donald J. Trump’s record on pardons is unusually concentrated in two forms: hundreds of individually named pardons across his presidencies plus at least two mass proclamations that extend clemency to ...
Reported arrest rates show large racial disparities: one set of figures says Black people were arrested at 20.4 per 1,000 versus 9.4 per 1,000 for White people — roughly double — and other sources rep...
Multiple contemporary news reports and legal analyses record that Donald J. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York, making him the first U.S. president to b...
The clearest, consistent signal across government releases compiled by the and contemporaneous reporting is that the largest raw counts of arrests in 2025 clustered in , and , with and also among the ...
Official, machine‑readable datasets that can be used to verify arrest counts in states include Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) statistics, DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) mo...
ICE’s recent actions under the 2025 administration include a sharp rise in detentions (about a 70% increase to almost 66,000 in detention by November 2025) and a large jump in people accepting “volunt...
Since January 2025, reporting shows enforcement activity on two levels: concentrated, high-profile federal surges — most visibly in — and a broader expansion of detention and local cooperation that to...
There is no authoritative, agency-wide total for how many citizens have been detained by across all administrations; public records and oversight reports offer only fragmentary counts and case lists ....
Public data from ICE and independent aggregators shows conflicting but converging patterns: ICE’s official reporting and prior-year trends emphasize arrests of people with convictions, citing figures ...
Donald Trump issued roughly 237 pardons and commutations during his first presidency (2017–2021), including 144 pardons and about 93 commutations depending on counting method cited in Justice Departme...
From available government and independent analyses, interior removals fell substantially over the past decade while have fluctuated with policy shifts: removals from the interior averaged roughly 155,...
The evidence shows that has not deported only violent criminals; substantial portions of recent enforcement have targeted people with no criminal convictions or only minor offenses, according to multi...
Arrest rates calculated per 100,000 noncitizen residents are numerically far higher than arrest rates calculated per 100,000 total residents because the noncitizen population is a much smaller denomin...
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) focuses on administrative arrests of people it believes are removable and also can execute criminal warrants; historically many arrested have convictions...